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Pre-authentication Denial of Service attack in OpenSSH - CVE-2025-26466

CVSSv3 Score: 5.9 CVE-2025-26466A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Cons

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Pre-authentication Denial of Service attack in OpenSSH - CVE-2025-26466
First reported
Mar 11, 2025 07:00 UTC
Last reported
Mar 11, 2025 07:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:45 UTC
Record ID
a0933457f37be0f2b13a41d9fe864c2a900f1cd5abae8cf4428ec16ce789f140

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src_3903b1582d75bc313f

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Mar 11, 2025 07:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:45 UTC

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